Reinforcement Learning · advanced · concept 186 of 311 · Updated Nov 4, 2026
World Models
AI that builds internal models of how the world works, predicting what happens next without actually experiencing it. Championed by Yann LeCun, who left Meta at the end of 2025 to found AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence) specifically to pursue this, as the next paradigm: learning through observation, not just language.
Top AI contributors on this
- Demis HassabisGoogle DeepMind (chair) / Isomorphic Labs
- Stuart RussellUC Berkeley
- Pieter AbbeelAmazon / UC Berkeley
- David SilverIneffable Intelligence / UCL
- Sebastian ThrunStanford University (adjunct)
- John SchulmanThinking Machines Lab
Key terms
Predictive modelImaginationModel-based RLJEPA
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